A few miles off post was a small town that came to life during the summer. As the only Americans for 200 miles, we were the oddities. I have never seen a more concentrated group of newly divorced women, and they fell in love with my soldiers.
I made so many friends that summer, I’d make the 400 mile drive during long weekends my last two years in Germany. That summer exponentially improved my German, too.
I can imagine with so many German men soldiers killed in WWII, American soldiers had to be in great demand.